Motivational Quotes

Death

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Death

Death is the final wake-up call.

Horton, Doug

Death is the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.

Beecher, Henry Ward

If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

George Burns

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.

Hamilton, Hugh

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

Johnson, Samuel

I am not the least afraid to die.

Darwin, Charles R.

The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.

Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

Donne, John

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Franklin, Benjamin

10.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

Butler, Samuel

11.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

Farber, Dave

12.

But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

13.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Mark Twain

14.

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

Milton, John

15.

Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.

Dickinson, Emily

16.

Your body must become familiar with its death -- in all its possible forms and degrees -- as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Hammarskjold, Dag

17.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Dickinson, Emily

18.

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.

A useless life is an early death.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

20.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

21.

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Landers, Ann

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O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? [1 Corinthians 15:55]

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23.

I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

24.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Miller, Henry

25.

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death. [New Testament]

Bible

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As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relations with this best and truest friend of mankind, that his image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling! And I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

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Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Camus, Albert

28.

Like pilgrims to the appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end.

Dryden, John

29.

To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.

Davis, Mrs Hubbard

30.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Milton, John

31.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Charles II

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O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living.

Philip II

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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Conrad, Joseph

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Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

Gabrielle Zevin

36.

Dying is a wild night and a new road.

Dickinson, Emily

37.

Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.

Aeschylus

38.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Landor, Walter Savage

39.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Eliot, George

40.

The fear of death is worse than death.

Burton, Robert

41.

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James

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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Hendrix, Jimi

43.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Macarthur, Douglas

44.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

Eliot, George

45.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. [Psalm 23:4]

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When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Aaron McGruder

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I am not dying, not anymore than any of us are at any moment. We run, hopefully as fast as we can, and then everyone must stop. We can only choose how we handle the race.

Hugh Elliott

48.

Is there a life after death? Can I never get some peace?

Kocher, Gerhard

49.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

Byron, Lord

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Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

Lowell, James Russell